Title
Improving Gas Network Infrastructure Planning

CoPED ID
9c2305b1-52fb-4d68-9ab2-d563d260e7df

Status
Closed


Value
£392,834

Start Date
June 30, 2017

End Date
March 31, 2019

Description

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Under the UK's ambitious decarbonisation trajectory, the role of the UK's gas network infrastructure is changing significantly. Between 2014 and 2020, an estimated £7.6 billion is to be invested in the UK's gas networks to modernise and adapt these systems in response to their evolving function in the UK's energy infrastructure system. At present, Gas Distribution Network Operators (GDNOs) do not yet have an integrated forecasting system to show how the complex interactions of new heating technology adoption (such as heat pumps, combined heat and power, district heating, etc.), new distributed gas sources (e.g. from biomethane, low carbon hydrogen and unconventional gas injection into the gas grid) and climate change will impact on the demand and supply levels across different areas of their networks in future. In this project, we will test the feasibility of a new type of forecasting tool that can be used by GDNOs to better understand how these complex factors will impact on gas distribution network infrastructure requirements to minimise costs, optimise the matching of supply and demand, improve energy security and reduce the carbon intensity of the gas network, with the potential to save GDNOs and UK gas consumers as much as £130 million per annum.

Mark Hughes PM_PER

Subjects by relevance
  1. Climate changes
  2. Infrastructures
  3. Natural gas
  4. Emissions
  5. Energy policy
  6. Greenhouse gases
  7. District heating
  8. Forecasts
  9. Gas pipes
  10. Decrease (active)
  11. Carbon dioxide
  12. Heat pumps

Extracted key phrases
  1. Improving Gas Network Infrastructure Planning
  2. Gas distribution network infrastructure requirement
  3. UK gas consumer
  4. Gas network infrastructure
  5. Gas Distribution Network Operators
  6. Unconventional gas injection
  7. Energy infrastructure system
  8. Gas grid
  9. Gas source
  10. Ambitious decarbonisation trajectory
  11. New heating technology adoption
  12. Forecasting system
  13. Low carbon hydrogen
  14. New type
  15. GDNOs

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